Tronks - Slashdot User

Comment The answer is Toshiba (Score 0) 535

by Tronks on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:44AM (#33895202) Attached to: Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling

They will start selling as soon as they don't require glasses.

Comment Re:Atheist (Score -1, Troll) 583

by Tronks on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @05:56AM (#33571146) Attached to: The Advent of Religious Search Engines

Actually, atheists are usually much more superstitious than believers.

Comment Favicon (Score 0) 443

by Tronks on Friday May 29, 2009 @07:28AM (#28136793) Attached to: Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing"

The web's favicon looks suspiciously similar to ebuddy's logo.

Comment Re:Ah yes transcription (Score 0) 393

by Tronks on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:02AM (#27903631) Attached to: Time For Voice-Mail To Throw In the Towel

My other half uses a transcription service, SpinVox for her mobile phone which takes the messages and sends them via text message and email. Unfortunately I have a rather non-standard accent, what with the elocution lessons my parents made me take during my childhood in Northern Ireland, spending half my life in England and my default ability to try to match the speaking patterns of who I am talking to. It consistently mangles it's transcription of my messages.

You could set SpinVox to use British English, which is supported along with French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. Their service reportedly achieves above 95% accuracy.

Comment Blogger (Score 0) 209

by Tronks on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:04PM (#26970381) Attached to: Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users

I don't know whether it's related or not, but I cannot publish comments on Blogger posts today...

Comment Re:Distro (Score 0) 249

by Tronks on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @12:33PM (#25976383) Attached to: Real-World Benchmarks of Ext4

Probably Ubuntu Kinky Koala, Lousy Lion or Maniac Monkey, at the latest.

Comment Re:aren't there only 4 engines? (Score 0) 291

by Tronks on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @12:03PM (#25960459) Attached to: Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers

opera ie mozilla (firefox/ netscape) webkit (safarit/ chrome)

FYI, Opera's engine is called Presto, IE's Trident, and Mozilla's Gecko.

am i missing any (competitive, comprehensive) engines?

Maybe Konqueror's KHTML.

Comment TraceMonkey (Score 0) 371

by Tronks on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @06:19AM (#25883897) Attached to: Google Chrome Tops Browser Speed Tests

TraceMonkey is reportedly faster than V8.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 157

by Tronks on Wednesday November 12, 2008 @06:14AM (#25731503) Attached to: Identifying People By Odor As Effective As Fingerprinting

Even I have a couple of friends I can uniquely identify by their... ahem... odor.

Comment Slashdot (Score 0) 516

by Tronks on Monday November 10, 2008 @12:14PM (#25705379) Attached to: (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks?

Regex for this site: /\/\./

Comment Old news (Score 0) 244

by Tronks on Monday November 10, 2008 @07:58AM (#25702047) Attached to: Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel

Even Mario knows that mushrooms power you up.

Slashdot Top Deals